[erlang-questions] Was Re: Bug ?! now Erlang comment (LONG LONG)

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2006-10-20 00:18, James Hague wrote:

> There's the language and then there's the libraries.  The libraries,
> IMO, have a lot more warts in them than the language.  I've posted
> about some of these before, and so have other people. There's basic
> stuff like lists:keysearch pointlessly wrapping the result in a tuple,
> to the confusion between the different dictionary and tree types.
> These changes are time consuming but easy enough to make (assuming you
> don't care about compatibility).

the compatibility problem could be handled if richard carlsons ''new 
standard libraries'' suggestion (using nested modules) was adopted.


bengt
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